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Date: Aug. 15, 2013
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Harmony Arboretum, seven miles west on HWY 64, then one half mile south on County Road E.
Late summer is the time when prairie flowers bloom and grasses turn golden. What a wonderful time to spend an evening in the prairie.
Prairies once covered two million acres of Wisconsin. As Europeans settled in Wisconsin, they converted the treeless prairies into crop fields and learned to control the sweep of wildfires. Today, less than 12,000 scattered acres of prairie exist in Wisconsin. As grasslands are lost, so are the animals that live there. During the program, Marinette County staff will talk about what exactly a prairie is, why and how people restore prairies today, and how to identify different kinds of prairie plants. Come and take in some of nature's beauty.
People should call the Marinette County Land & Water Conservation at (715) 732-7780 to register for the free program. |
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